Abstract

This paper presents the design for the real-time core of a generic real-time signal acquisition, processing and generation system. The design is generic in the sense that it can be used in a wide variation of application domains, from the PLC logic of MatPLC, over medical signal processing in the RT-Lab project, to the robot motion control of the Orocos project. It's exactly the functional overlap between these projects that has stimulated the presented design, in the hope of gaining more critical mass for the real-time signal processing core of these, and other, projects. The paper only presents the design of an application-independent real-time signal processing infrastructure, and its implementation on a Linux RTOS, but not the protocols and plug-ins to be provided by the applications, on top of this infrastructure.

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